{"id":158219,"date":"2026-02-10T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:22:09","slug":"veterans-memorial-makes-season-opener-statement-wins-18-3-over-ray-in-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158219\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Memorial makes season opener statement, wins 18-3 over Ray in District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Veterans Memorial Lady Eagles started the 2026 season with a 18-3 UIL District 29-5A victory over the Ray Texans. Emilee Holmes drove in 4 runs on 3 hits. The senior recently signed to Texas Woman&#8217;s University.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770718929_589_.jpeg\" alt=\"Veterans Memorial softball head coach Paula Salinas\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Ray scored in the top of the first when Ava Martinez hit an RBI single. The Eagles responded in the bottom from scoring 4 runs. Veterans Memorial ended the game with 18 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Lyla Creek led things off for Veterans Memorial in the circle. She allowed 3 runs on 7 hits over 4 innings, while striking out 1 batter.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770718929_833_.jpeg\" alt=\"Veterans Memorial softball coaches high five starting pitcher Lyla Creek\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"855\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Larissa Liska<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Memorial will be staying in Corpus Christi this weekend, playing in the Calallen tournament starting Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Veterans Memorial Lady Eagles started the 2026 season with a 18-3 UIL District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,13455,155,157,156,14573,65108,65109,20472,26793,21066,65110],"class_list":["post-158219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-5a","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-district","tag-emilee-holmes","tag-lady-eagles","tag-ray","tag-softball","tag-veterans-memorial","tag-veterans-memorial-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}